Pilot told Colombia controllers 'no fuel' before crash

Fernando Vergara and Joshua Goodman, Associated Press

November 29, 2016Updated: December 1, 2016 12:14pm

Photo: LUIS ACOSTA/AFP/Getty Images

View of some coffins for players of the Brazilian football team Chapecoense Real at the Mortuary San Vicente in Medellin on November 30, 2016. Investigators worked Thursday to finish identifying 71 victims of a plane crash that wiped out a Brazilian football team in Colombia, left reeling by a harrowing recording of the pilot's final minutes without fuel.

View of some coffins for players of the Brazilian football team...

MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — The pilot of the chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel and desperately pleaded for permission to land before crashing into the Andes, according to a leaked recording of the final minutes of the doomed flight.

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